Scientific Programming - Scientific Workflows
Reasoning about taxonomies and articulations
Ph.D. '08 Proceedings of the 2008 EDBT Ph.D. workshop
Visualisation to Aid Biodiversity Studies through Accurate Taxonomic Reconciliation
BNCOD '08 Proceedings of the 25th British national conference on Databases: Sharing Data, Information and Knowledge
Merging taxonomies under RCC-5 algebraic articulations
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Ontologies and information systems for the semantic web
Data integration and workflow solutions for ecology
DILS'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
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Biologists use scientific names to label the organisms described in their data; however, these names are not unique identifiers for taxonomic entities. Alternative taxonomic classifications may apply the same name, associated with alternative definition or circumscription. Consequently, labelling data with scientific names alone does not unambiguously distinguish between taxon concepts. Accurate integration and comparison of biological data is required on taxon concepts, as defined in alternative taxonomic classifications. We have derived an abstract, inclusive model for the diverse representations of taxonomic concepts used by taxonomists and in taxonomic databases. This model has been implemented as a proposed standard XML schema for the exchange and comparison of taxonomic concepts between data providers and users. The representation and exchange of taxon definitions conformant with this schema will facilitate the development of taxonomic name/concept resolution services, allowing the meaningful integration and comparison of biological datasets, with greater accuracy than on the basis of name alone.